Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor has just published Issue #20, “The New Academic Manners, Managers, and Spaces.” This issue includes key conceptual and empirical analyses of
- the creation and avoidance of unions in academic and business workplaces (Vincent Serravallo)
- the new critiquette, impartial response to Bruno Latour and Jacques Ranciere’s critique of critique (Stephen Petrina)
- the two-culture model of the modern university in full light of the crystal, neural university (Sean Sturm, Stephen Turner)
- alternative narratives of accountability in response to neo-liberal practices of government (Sandra Mathison)
- vertical versus horizontal structures of governance (Rune Kvist Olsen)
- teachers in nomadic spaces and Deleuzian approaches to curricular practice (Tobey Steeves)
Workplace Issue #20 Table of Contents:
Parallel Practices of Union Avoidance in Business and Academia
The New Critiquette and Old Scholactivism: A Petit Critique of Academic Manners, Managers, Matters, and Freedom
Cardinal Newman in the Crystal Palace – The Idea of the University Today
Working Toward a Different Narrative of Accountability: A Report from British Columbia
The DemoCratic Workplace: Empowering People (demos) to Rule (cratos) Their Own Workplace
Bridges to Difference & Maps of Becoming: An Experiment with Teachers in Nomadic Spaces for Education in British Columbia
We invite you to review Issue #20 for articles and items of interest. Thanks for the continuing interest in Workplace (we welcome new manuscripts here and Critical Education),
Institute for Critical Education Studies (ICES)
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